Jardins de l'avenue Foch

The Jardins de l'avenue Foch stretch out as a long, narrow green corridor, defined by rows of nearly eight hundred mature trees that frame the widest avenue in Paris. Created in eighteen fifty-four under the direction of Emperor Napoleon III, these gardens were designed by engineer Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand to serve as a lush, arboretum-like approach to the Bois de Boulogne. The path is home to some of the oldest trees in the city, including a Siberian elm planted in eighteen fifty-two and a massive horse chestnut with a trunk circumference of nearly five meters.